OOGNO Ah.  It is sunset already.  There will be good eating.

THAHN We shall see the girls come in with baskets upon their heads.

OOGNO There will be fruits in the baskets.

THAHN All the fruits of the valley.

MLAN Ah, how long we have wandered along the ways of the world.

SLAG Ah, how hard they were.

THAHN And how dusty.

OOGNO And how little wine.

MLAN How long we have asked and asked, and for how much!

AGMAR We to whom all things are coming now at last.

THIEF I fear lest my art forsake me now that good things come without stealing.

AGMAR You will need your art no longer.

SLAG The wisdom of my Master shall suffice us all our days. (Enter a frightened man.  He kneels before Agmar and abases his forehead.)

MAN Master, we implore you, the people beseech you. (Agmar and the beggars in the attitude of the gods sit silent.)

MAN Master, it is terrible. (The beggars maintain silence) It is terrible when you wander in the evening.  It is terrible on the edge of the desert in the evening.  Children die when they see you.

AGMAR In the desert?  When did you see us?

MAN Last night, Master.  You were terrible last night.  You were terrible in the gloaming.  When your hands were stretched out and groping.  You were feeling for the city.

AGMAR Last night do you say?

MAN You were terrible in the gloaming!

AGMAR You yourself saw us?

MAN Yes, Master, you were terrible.  Children too saw you and they died.

AGMAR You say you saw us?

MAN Yes, Master.  Not as you are now, but otherwise.  We implore you,
Master, not to wander at evening.  You are terrible in the gloaming. 
You are....

AGMAR You say we appeared not as we are now.  How did we appear to you?

MAN Otherwise, Master, otherwise.

AGMAR But how did we appear to you?

MAN You were all green, Master, all green in the gloaming, all of rock again as you used to be in the mountains.  Master, we can bear to see you in flesh like men, but when we see rock walking it is terrible, it is terrible.

AGMAR That is how we appeared to you?

MAN Yes, Master.  Rock should not walk.  When children see it they do not understand.  Rock should not walk in the evening.

AGMAR There have been doubters of late.  Are they satisfied?

MAN Master, they are terrified.  Spare us, Master.

AGMAR It is wrong to doubt.  Go, and be faithful. (Exit Man.)

SLAG What have they seen, Master?

AGMAR They have seen their own fears dancing in the desert.  They have seen something green after the light was gone, and some child has told them a tale that it was us.  I do not know what they have seen.  What should they have seen?

ULF Something was coming this way from the desert, he said.